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This reader is accompanied by an audiobook and eBook. For thousands of years, tall mountains and thick forests have hidden the African country of Wakanda from the world. Using vibranium, the world's strongest metal, Wakanda is now also protected by its technology. After his father's death, T'Challa returns there to take his place as king. But then deadly challengers to his position appear. Can he protect his country from them? And when the fighting ends, will he still be king? About the series...

This reader is accompanied by an audiobook and eBook. Scott Lang is a loving father to Cassie, but he is also Ant-Man. When Avengers fought Avengers in Germany, he was there. He is now under arrest and cannot leave his home. But Hope - The Wasp - and her father have an important job for him … now. Can he leave his home and his daughter? The FBI are watching and will send him to prison. But can he really do nothing? Will Ant-Man fly again? About the series Pearson English Readers bring l...

"Storytime Readers" is a series of storybooks especially designed to provide easy and enjoyable reading practice. They have been carefully graded into three stages and have been written in a way that will help teachers to use them as plays, thus providing an early introduction to drama as a means of learning."Storytime Readers" tell tales of friendship, trust, family loyalty, kindness and love using colourful illustrations, dramatised audio recordings and engaging animations to stimulate the ima...

„Tokyo Station”, the captivating diary of Radu Serban, ambassador to Japan between March 14, 2012 and August 14, 2016, is the starting point for a reflection on the notion of culture and civilization in terms of maximum otherness. In addition to highlighting his own diplomatic experience coupled with a prodigious culture, the author explores what Roland Barthes called the Empire of Signs, a “revolution in the ownership of symbolic systems,” a suite of codes in a world whi...

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right levelFollow the journey of a polar bear from cub to adulthood to find out how they reach the top of the Arctic food chain and survive in the frozen north.- Text type - An information book.- The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.- The glossary and index on pages 44 and 45 can be used to develop children's information retrieval skill...

Sick with his petty life in a small Romanian rural community governed by superstition and having lost his faith, a village priest decides to do something absolutely scandalous for a bearer of the priestly garment… I have worn the priestly garment for a long time now. I have given so many Ressurection sermons, year after year, and talked at many more funerals, each time the occasion arose.My eyes have witnessed so many births and deaths… have read into so many souls, sitting in my c...

Concept and Preface: Erwin KesslerCover: Mihail CosuletuLayout: Gabriel NiculaNotes: Ioana Antonia PearsicaDocumentation and translation: Ioana SerbanThe most decent and inconspicuous Romanian artist, Florin Mitroi, has left the most indecent and violent legacy. What should we do with it? Should we hide it, ignore it, downplay it as pathological? Should we burn it, perhaps?This could be the prologue to a scandal rather than to a revelation. Yet, here is the most electrifying breakthrough over th...

It was the year 1867. Some sailors said that they saw a dangerous, giant monster living in the cold waters of the ocean. Some ships tried to find it and kill it, but they never returned. People said it looked like a whale."It was 300 feet long and a mile wide!""Water came out of its back. It was like a big underwater explosion!"

It was the year 1867. Some sailors said that they saw a dangerous, giant monster living in the cold waters of the ocean. Some ships tried to find it and kill it, but they never returned. People said it looked like a whale."It was 300 feet long and a mile wide!""Water came out of its back. It was like a big underwater explosion!"

George is a normal boy. Green is a monster. But, George wants to be a monster. And Green wants to be a normal boy! Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, sp...

One day, a little old woman made a gingerbread man. He jumped from the oven and ran and ran!Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and cr...

O casatorie regala e ceea ce viseaza cele mai multe fete. Dar pentru Kestrel inseamna o viata traita intr-o colivie pe care ea insasi a creat-o. Pe masura ce nunta se apropie, ea tanjeste sa-i spuna lui Arin adevarul despre logodna ei: ca a acceptat sa se marite cu printul in schimbul libertatii lui Arin. Dar poate Kestrel sa aiba incredere in Arin? Poate sa se increada in ea insasi? Caci Kestrel se pricepe de minune la arta deceptiei. Ea actioneaza ca spion la curte, dar daca va fi prinsa, va f...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student\\''s capabilities. Pilot Don Radcliffe returns to Australia hoping to rescue a failed marriage and to spend more time with his daughter, Judy. But a routine cargo flight in an old DC4 airplane turns into tragedy when the plane crashes in the Australian Outback killing the co-pilot. Don and Judy\\''s chan...

Discover amazing facts about bees and how they live. This interesting, decodable information book is written by Sally Morgan.* Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.* Text type: An information book* Pages 14-15 provide an opportunity for children to recap the text.* Curriculum links: scienceshow moreFormat: 19x21Numar pagini: 16Anul aparitiei: 2013...

Children and adults alike will discover the magical world of Romanian folk tales.They have been retold by Razvan Nastase, who kept their weaving as magical as the original writers and folklorists intended. Razvan Nastase is himself a writer in love with children’s literature and, by retelling, abridging and adapting them, he made sure they will be read. They are as enchanting and captivating as they were a hundred, maybe a thousand years ago.With her beautiful drawings, Yanna Zosmer brings...

In this new edition of Shakespeare's most controversial comedy The Merchant of Venice, the merchant Antonio - on behalf of his friend Bassano - seeks a loan from Shylock. The loan is required to impress an heiress. Shylock is a Jewish moneylender whom Antonio has always treated with the utmost contempt, and Antonio is to honour the debt with a pound of the merchant's own flesh. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock prepares to take his gruesome revenge - only to find that the law is a knife...

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's finest plays, and presents a man's conscience and the effect of guilt on his mind. A dark and bloody play, Macbeth explores reality and illusion; witchcraft and the supernatural; ambition and kingship; the natural order; light and life, darkness and death; blood and dead babies. Written just after the Gunpowder Plot, and at a time when people were often tried for treason, Macbeth makes much of the beliefs of an extremely superstitious age. King James 1 believed in...

The drama of Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous of all tragedies. It tells the story of two 'star-crossed' lovers whose young lives are cruelly cut short because of a bitter feud between their families. Since it was published in 1597, Romeo and Juliet has been performed all round the world, made into box office recordbreaking films, ballets and adapted by Leonard Bernstein for his world-famous musical, West Side Story. Shakespeare was young when he wrote the play, and the exquisite langu...